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Mrs. Larsen wants to help handicapped children
School system wants
to help handicapped
The Griffin-Spalding School
System is trying to locate
handicapped children and get
them into a program that fits
their needs.
The system is participating
with the Georgia Department of
Education in the push.
A program funded by
congress is aimed at locating
children with handicaps and
attempting to get them into a
program to help them.
Mrs. Bobbie J. Larsen,
director of Special Education
for the school system here, is
coordinating the effort, called
“Find Child.”
Mrs. Larsen’s program is
centered in the Hawkes In
structional Center on the Griffin
High campus.
Exciting
women
LONDON (UPI) — Britain’s
Princess Alexandra headed a
list of the “most exciting
women in the world” an
nounced Monday by the Inter
national Bachelors’ Society.
“Princess Alexandra was
chosen because she exudes a
great degree of warmth and
she proves that being royal can
still be sexy,” Bachelors’
Society President Claude
Franck said.
Other “exciting women”
chosen by the Society’s 235
members included British sing
er-composer Kiki Dee, Ameri
can tennis star Chris Evert,
Empress Farah of Iran, Ameri
can actress Brenda Vaccaro,
U.S., First Lady Betty Ford,
Australian-born singer Helen
Reddy, American actress Na
talie Wood, American singer
Lena Horne and Princess
Caroline of Monaco.
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She pointed out the campaign
is seeking handicapped persons
21 years of age and younger,
including preschoolers who are
not receiving an education.
She identified handicaps as
meaning such things as hearing
impairments, physical or or
thopedic impairments, visual
problems, learning disabilities,
behavioral handicaps, mental
retardation, speech problems
and others.
Parents with children in need
of help with these or similar
handicaps should get in touch
with the local school system,
Mrs. Larsen advised.
Adults knowing of any
children who might be helped
should let the school system
know about them, Mrs. Larsen
suggested.
Environmentalist trying to halt
R ichard R ussell dam construction
GREENVILLE, S. C. (UPI)
— Several environmental
groups filed suit in federal court
Tuesday to halt construction of
the $231 million Richard B.
Russell Dam on the Savannah
River in Georgia and South
Carolina.
The suit was filed in U. S.
District Court in Greenville by
the National Wildife Federa
tion, its state affliates and eight
state and local conservation
groups.
In the 25-page document, the
groups contend the dam will
Beaver, muskrat control
STUTTGART, Ark. (UPI) -
Tired of beaver and muskrat
damage to his timber, farmer
Wayne Hampton asked the
Arkansas Game and Fish
Commission if he couldn’t get
some alligators on his land.
Soon he and a multitude of
other south Arkansas landown
ers had their wish.
“The day after 24 ‘gators
were let loose on my land, my
son saw one lying near a
beaver house,” said Hampton.
Nessen evicts reporters
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
Presidential Press Secretary
Ron Nessen sharply restricted
press access to his office
Tuesday after an angry ex
change with reporters who tried
to interview Jimmy Carter’s
newly designated press se
cretary.
At one point during the
confrontation, Nessen ordered
that White House security
guards be called to evict the
reporters from his office. He
later told the guards to refuse
access to any reporters who
come to his office without an
appointment — not a require
ment in the past.
The incident occurred after
Nessen acknowledged that Jody
Powell, named Monday as
Carter’s press secretary, was
visiting the White House and
listening to a press briefing
over a loudspeaker in Nessen’s
private office.
“cause substantial, irreparable
evironmental damage” to the
river and surrounding area.
Conservationists and the U. S.
Army Corps of Engineers have
been battling for more than a
decade over plans to build the
dam along the upper Savannah
River between Lake Hartwell
and Clark HUI Lake.
The corps wants to buUd the
dam to generate hydroelectic
power and to add to flatwater
recreation in the area.
But in the suit, environmental
ists contended that water
Arkansas stocking gators
“Soon as a beaver came out,
the alligator attacked. He just
dragged and rolled the beaver
under the water.”
Arkansas is importing alliga
tors from swamps of neighbor
ing Louisiana, which has a
surplus of the animals. Since
1972 more than 2,000 alligators
have been imported and state
officials have landowner re
-1 quests for another 500.
' “Since the alligator is on our
1 endangered species list, we’re
■ trying to re-establish them and
Some reporters asked to
interview Powell, but Nessen
came back after the briefing
and announced, “Mr. Powell
has declined to come down to
talk to you on the grounds that
you’ve been fed once today and
that’s enough.”
Several reporters then went
upstairs, found Powell in an
area used by secretaries
outside Nessen’s office and
began talking with him.
Seeing the crowd, Nessen
barged into the conversation
and said the interview was
unauthorized and “unfair” to
Powell.
The reporters, including CBS
correspondent Phil Jones, ob
jected and told Nessen not to
interrupt because Powell was
willing to answer questions.
“Get out of the
office, Phil,” Nessen shouted.
“If you want to get bounced out
on your ear, you keep it up.
Page 13
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, November 17,1976
discharged from the dam “wiU
be oxygen deficient and contain
other pollutants, including in
creased concentrations of iron,
manganese, phosphorous and
mercury.”
The suit also said the dam
would “increase the geological
dangers, including seismic ac
tivity and the potential for
earthquakes, in the area of the
project.”
Environmentalists also
charged in the suit that the
corps and the Environmental
Protection Agency are violating
at the same time cut down on
the beaver and muskrat popula
tions in the state,” said Dick
Broach, chief of the Game and
Fish river basins division.
“Beavers and muskrats have
proliferated to the point they
are considered nuisance ani
mals.”
Hampton, who is living where
he was bom 58 years ago, said
beavers in particular are doing
a great amount of damage to
2,500 acres of hie land.
“They’re killing timber by
damming up ditches and creeks
and keeping water on the
trees,” Hampton said. “They’ve
been multiplying real fast.”
State officials said one reason
for the beaver and muskrat
surge is the absence of the
alligator, which almost disap
peared from Arkansas because
of previously unregulated hun
ting. Broach is one of several
state employes who periodically
journey to Louisiana’s Marsh
Island and Rockefeller Refuge
“where they’re up to their ears
in alligators.”
Broach said the alligator hunt
is conducted in boats at night,
when the reptile is not so shy.
“Their eyes are very bright,
shining like red reflectors. One
man slips a pole with a noose
over the ‘gator’s head and flips
it in the boat while another
man jumps on his hind quarters
and hold his jaws shut.”
Broach said the alligator’s
jaws are tied shut with an
elastic band and the animal is
stuffed into a large feed sack to
water quality standards of the
Federal Water Control Act
Amendments of 1972 by building
the dam.
“At issue here is whether
these government agencies are
bigger than the law,” said
Thomas Kimbell of the National
Wildlife Federation in Washing
ton.
The wildlife federation said
its suit is the first attempt to
apply requirements of Section
402 of the control act amend
ments to hydroelectric dam
discharges.
be transported back to Arkan
sas.
“Their brain capacity is not
too large. Anything that moves
is food to them. They don’t
have the intellect of a dog or
cat. They’re just like a big
garbage grinder.”
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Student
awarded
$53,000
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) - A
college student arrested two
years ago for the alleged theft
of a 69-cent bag of pistachio
nuts will collect $53,000 as a
result of the incident.
A federal jury Tuesday made
the award to Elliot Branch,
who had filed a suit claiming
he was beaten on Sept. 10, 1974
by city detective Martin Vitcow
when arrested on the shoplift
ing charge.
David Rudovsky, Branch’s
lawyer, said Vitcow had been
called to the scene by the
manager of a supermarket who
claimed Branch had stolen a
bag of pistachio nuts. Branch
said he had made the purchase
elsewhere.
Rudovsky said Branch was
taken to a city police station
where he refused to sign a
release that stated he had
taken the nuts and included an
agreement that he would not
sue the market.
Rudovsky said that according
to testimony at the suit trial,
Vitcow went into a room where
the youth was sitting and
kicked him on the left side of
the face.